Perceptions of the Role of Living Alone in Providing Services to Patients With Cognitive Impairment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The potential role of living alone in either facilitating or hampering access to and use of services for older adults with cognitive impairment is largely unknown. Specifically, it is critical to understand directly from health care and social services professionals how living alone creates barriers to the access and use of supportive health care and social services for racially and ethnically diverse patients with cognitive impairment.

Objective

To identify the potential role of living alone in the access and use of health care and social services for diverse patients with cognitive impairment by investigating professionals' perceptions of caring for such patients who live alone in comparison with counterparts living with others.

Design, setting, and participa

SUBMITTER: Portacolone E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10439475 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature